Ahh! All those nice, round, mechanical instruments! (Especially those in the center.)
It brings back memories of when I used to help build/test those exact same things. The company I worked for did the instruments in the center of the console for just about everything with wings. Pick any aircraft bigger than a Cessna 172 or so, and it had Gull instruments in the cluster.
N1, N2, ITT, RPM, prop pitch, AOA, fuel quantity - you name it and we did it.
Later on we did digital versions of the same instruments, but the older mechanical instruments have their own special appeal.
Last night, I finally corrected a long-standing omission by trying out Bush Talk Radio. Combining that with my fledgling NeoFly4 pilot running short bush trip missions in the Pacific Northwest really adds some fun and removes any boredom. There are so many POI’s that you can take short detours during missions and overfly them. For example, now I know that Crater Lake was formed over 7000 years ago when a volcano collapsed. No meteor involved! Now I need to get a helicopter certification for my pilot so I can more leisurely visit and view the sights.
This time the rather hard landing was more or less intentional, it is a very narrow strip and not too long either, so I wanted to put the wheels down at the very beginning of the tarmac.
PASC Deadhorse Alaska to PANC Anchorage Alaska in the A400M. Really been loving this plane. Some fun weather for departure, Anchorage was clear and a million
and I flew northeast to the nearby Yerlington airport 043 or something like that – which is where I was finally able to verify that yes it was indeed countryside TIN – the lake/quarry? had a few triangles around the edge – otherwise I would not have known:
I ended up in Fresno where Fresno executive was hiding in the blinding setting sun and I was happy, upon landing, to get into some shade — just like real life – this sim rocks!
MSFS24 SU1. Flew over to Yellowstone and found a buddy - A Bell 505 just hanging around. Did some formation flying, then set down and had a pizza delivered.
Did the weekly flight, started with MSFS 2020… I had another job I had to do and clearly my pilot wanted to hit the mountains:
I later changed up to MSFS 2024, I took a much slower plane. Ever since the game came out, this one plane caught my attention, so I wanted to check it out at least once:
Orlando (KMCO) to Charlotte (KCLT) in the default 737 max 8 but was forced to land at (KLKR) Lancaster county airport SC due to the aircraft electrical systems shutting down randomly mid flight and I have no failure settings on currently in settings
I really did not have adequate time to properly fly this one, but I wanted to get it over with, as with this I can now buy a used PC24 and patch it up for the cargo company.
